On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...

Native boats gather around the Resolution and Discovery in Alaska’s glacier-rimmed Prince William Sound. (Engraving, after Webber’s sketch, published in 1784 in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Author’s ...

James Cook’s first voyage circumnavigated the globe in the ship Endeavour, and gave scientific members of the expedition an opportunity to collect specimens from previously unexplored habitats.

Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. Click through ...

THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...